The Washington critic., 1887-03-05
GENERAL AND CRITICULAR.

SUFFER- TABLE LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT,
MIR. PRESIDENT: The Forty-ninth Con
gress has passed into history. Whether 1t
is profane or sacred history we will not stop
here TO discuss. That II has passed Is suli-
cient, and the game will 90 on. Its closing
days will ever be memorable for the exhibi
tion Of usurpation OF power by the
Speaker of the House of Representatives to
defeat the known will Of the people and of
a majority of the Representatives, owing
largely TO the fact that a protection Demo
crat by the name OF Randall has bucked up
against the free-trade Democrat Carlisle,
and the Speaker, standing in with Carlisle,
slugged the other fellows out OF sight. Your
vetoes OF the acts Of Congress were con-
stitutional II not wise; the Speakers action
was tyranncal II not doggonod mean, and
him Democrat against Democrats, too.
Mr.. President, what the party needs is
harmony, and You ought to use your great
influence in that direction to set out grove
Of olive branches.
A remarkable event In the lis 'n'y nf this
Congress was the disagreement between the
Senate and House, in view of the fact that
one e'n! Republican AMI the other Demo
cratic, the national inference would be that
there would not be, because there was
enough disagreement already In the u mo
cratic party. Mr.. President, II you don't
get on to this, We will send you diagram.
Diagrams are frequently necessary IN MAX
ing an argument OF this character thor
oughly understood.
The failure to pass the Blair b'll viii cut
down the future supply OF newspaper
readers the failure to remove the war tax
on tobacco will give us S?S,O0O,000 year
that we haven't pensions enough to absorb,
owing TO your veto OF the Dependent PEN
sion bill your failure to sign the River and
Harbor bill Knocks out our hopes, anl the
name Of the Potomac Flats Is "mul - the
refusal OF the House to pass any bill re.
duCing the surplus, or providing ways and
means to spend what we've got the crude
ness OF the Interstate Commerce bill, which
prevents great political editors, as well as
others, from getting passes, and whole
raft Of other deflciencies-all these COM
bined at one time constitute an emergency
so vital to the honor and prosperity of the
country as to demand of you a proclama.
tion convening an extra session OF Con-
gress.
Mr.. President, 1t may be an oppression OF
labor by capital to make Congress do ex-
ira work without extra pay, but this is no
time to haggle over trines. Turn Congress
on again, and let her go, Gallagher.
Mr. President you have recently had the
patriotism, and so forth, to handle Ameri-
can political dynamite, and II there ever
was President who has got more blowing
up than you have, he ought to be the star
boarder In dime museum. You have ID
augurated new departure which Proyl-
dence may use to destroy the color line and
race prejudice, but, Mr.. President, what
| you have raised thereby is something about
as far from Providence as Washington Il
from Cleveland, geographically speaking,
| Of course, Mr.. President. You have united
by your acts citizens Of all races, except In,
| dlans not taxed, and we now move you
] Mr.. President, TO give the poor prosecuted
| red man CHARGE, lie of the untutored
mind has some rights that you are bound tc
| respect, and the Great Recorder Of Deed,
has got His eye on you.
| After consultation with many leading
| RtrublicanF, IL is considered safe and
proper to Inform you that the division
you invite will be acceptable, but afte
consultation with many leading Democrat
of the District, We think 1t proper, but no
very safe, to inform you what the,
think about II and about you, Mr.
President. Self preservation beinl
the first Law of nature, we vii
do the safe thlng.and not the proper one II
this instance, and let you lind out througl
the Adminlstrstit organ and otherwIs
what the bays think and cay We will
give you a tip, though, Mr. President-tha
there is enough sulphur ia 1t to start
birthstone mill AID have q little surplu
stock.
Mr.. President your motives as a partisa
and patriot Will be exposed to the iiercea
light, and II i scorGhes you, you may cor
clude that the blessing you invoke
in your letter of acceptance, which read
"With an humble reliance upon the fave
and support of the Supreme Being, etc
etc. Is about all you have got left to su'
tain you, and the favor and support OF tn
Supreme Being, aforesaid, must entlrel
supercede the favor and support of tn
Democrats, which 1t Is supposed you had I
your mind at the time Of writing.
THE WAsHiSGToN CRITIC.
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